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Re: PowerMac is now dead
« on: August 09, 2006, 11:59:15 PM »
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stopthegop wrote:
Amigas are very poor at running gargantuan, hideously bloated software.  Macs are definately better for this task as well they should be since they need four CPUs to do it


LOL! And PCs need two CPUs (or at least one dual-core), a gig of RAM and a reasonably specced graphics card just to run[color=808080]*[/color] Microsoft's next OS! Nobody bothers writing efficient stuff any more!

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Lando wrote:
In fact this is the first time I think Apple have released a new generation of machines which were actually slower than the previous generation


Hmm... Weren't the first PPC-based Macs slower than their 68040-based counterparts to start with? Especially with earlier versions of the OS that were still mostly 68k-based?

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